5 North High Street, Portsoy is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972.

5 North High Street, Portsoy

WRENN ID
drifting-chamber-thunder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
OS grid reference
NJ 588 661
Coordinates
57.68357, -2.69153
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7 North High Street in Portsoy is a pair of two-storey cottages dating from the early to mid-18th century. Each cottage features a door near the center flanked by windows. The exterior is constructed of harled rubble with contrasting painted ashlar margins, and both cottages have timber sash and case windows.

Cottage No. 5 has a double-leaf panelled door with 12-pane glazing. Cottage No. 7 features a panelled door and an additional window positioned at the extreme right, with both 2-pane and 12-pane glazing. The cottages have crudely coped end stacks, a tall chimney stack at the center of the front wall, flat skews, and a slate roof.

Surrounding the property, high rubble walls enclose the rear garden.

Local climate

5 North High Street, Portsoy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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